Something nice for a change

[ChickNorris]

Meet-the-central-square-high-school-air-rifle-team (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syracuse.com/outdoors/2020/01/straight-shooters-meet-the-central-square-high-school-air-rifle-team-video.html%3foutputType=amp)

[OldFogey]

Nice! Boy, air rifles have sure gotten high tech since I was a kid. Or were they muskets back then?

[def90]

Here’s my home town (Lakeville Mn) high school..

https://www.hometownsource.com/sun_thisweek/sports/state-trapshooters-enjoy-the-mental-challenge/article_5c7ba95e-7a57-11e8-bd48-cb05e40ec950.html

http://www.lakevillenorthtrap.com/

[longrange2]

I used to shoot on the high school rifle team in the basement of the school. Once football season was over they would clear out the weight room to provide a larger space for an indoor range. Now some snowflake would be triggered if they saw that at school. I shot .22lr match rifles that my parents had used in the 50s when they were in high school.

[ray1970]

I was the captain of my high school?s air rifle team.

[Gman]

Thanks for putting that up. I had a riflery PE course in College back in the '80s. We shot air rifles under the concrete bleachers of the football stadium. The repeatable precision in air rifle competition is impressive.

[Duman]

My dad was telling me that back in high school the guys would bring their shotguns into shop class.
For show and tell, making stocks, or other types of things.

[Gman]

I knew someone that took his rifle to grade school and put it in his locker when he got there. He would take the rifle out at the end of the school day and shoot small game on the walk home. That was called "supper".

[SideShow Bob]

Nice! Boy, air rifles have sure gotten high tech since I was a kid. Or were they muskets back then?

Lewis & Clark did take a Girandoni air rifle on their expedition.....

[Hummer]

I knew someone that took his rifle to grade school and put it in his locker when he got there. He would take the rifle out at the end of the school day and shoot small game on the walk home. That was called "supper".

That was pretty common in rural America. A much larger part of the population relied on farming and subsistence hunting-gathering. My grandmother took her 1903 Winchester .22 auto to school to shoot rabbits on the way home. Iowa, circa 1910.

I wish I knew how she came by such a nice rifle, a well made take-down .22 auto when much cheaper single shot rifles were commonplace in most homes. I still have that Winchester ~130 years later.

Growing up in the 1950's & 60's, I didn't carry my rifle to school until I started driving in high school. Two days a week I packed my .22 target rifle in my vehicle to go to range practice after school.

[Gman]

In high school in TX I remember seeing pickups in the parking lot with lever guns racked in the back window.

[Hummer]

Meet-the-central-square-high-school-air-rifle-team (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.syracuse.com/outdoors/2020/01/straight-shooters-meet-the-central-square-high-school-air-rifle-team-video.html%3foutputType=amp)

Great story, thanks for posting it. The photos of young target shooters on the firing line are just like I experienced in the 60's. Even then, girls made up almost half the junior rifle teams. We competed and shot at ranges in regional matches all around CO, WY, KS and NM. It was a formative time for me. I wish more Americans were doing it but I'm glad to see it continues as a sport and endeavor.

I bought my Anschutz rifle with money I earned mowing lawns. I still shoot that rifle.

[buffalobo]

That was pretty common in rural America. A much larger part of the population relied on farming and subsistence hunting-gathering. My grandmother took her 1903 Winchester .22 auto to school to shoot rabbits on the way home. Iowa, circa 1910.

I wish I knew how she came by such a nice rifle, a well made take-down .22 auto when much cheaper single shot rifles were commonplace in most homes. I still have that Winchester ~130 years later.

Growing up in the 1950's & 60's, I didn't carry my rifle to school until I started driving in high school. Two days a week I packed my .22 target rifle in my vehicle to go to range practice after school.My grandmother also had a 1903. Damn ammo is getting hard to find and pricey. Great rifle.

Many times during middle school I took rifle or shotgun to school for hunting after school on way home.

[colorider]

Nice! Boy, air rifles have sure gotten high tech since I was a kid. Or were they muskets back then?

Do some browsing. It?s a deep rabbit hole. https://www.pyramydair.com
people are hunting deer and elk with air rifles now.